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The Living Bread

Categorie	Religie & Theologie
Boeknummer	#266009
Titel	The Living Bread
Auteur	Merton, Thomas
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	London, Burns & Oates
Jaar van uitgave	1976
ISBN10	0860120252
ISBN13	9780860120254
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	The whole problem of our time is the problem of love. How are we going to recover the ability to love ourselves and to love one another? We cannot be at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we cannot be at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God. There is a distinction between a contrite sense of sin and a feeling of guilt. The former is a true and healthy thing, the latter tends to be false and pathological. The man who suffers from a sense of guilt does not want to feel guilty, but at the same time he does not want to be innocent. He wants to do what he thinks he must not do, without the pain of worrying about the consequences. The history of our time has been made by dictators whose characters, often transparently easy to read, have bee... (Lees verder)n full of repressed guilt. They have managed to enlist the support of masses of men moved by the same repressed drives as themselves. Modern dictatorships display everywhere a deliberate and calculated hatred for human nature as such. The technique of degradation used in concentration camps and in staged trials are all too familiar in our time. They have one purpose: to defile the human person.
Pagina's	125
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 7,50

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